Belay
About My Belaying
Like many people my age in a technical field, I enjoy touching plastic holds in climbing gyms instead of going outside and touching real rocks like a normal person (although sometimes I do go outside). One day, soon into my climbing career, I saw an advert for a competition belay clinic in a local gym. I was relatively new to belaying at the time and thought it would be a great opportunity to sharpen my skills. Little did I know that at the clinic I would get roped into volunteering at my first USA Climbing youth regional qualifier event where I would quickly fall in love with competition belaying as a way to develop my skills and give back to my community. I’m proud to have earned my L3 endorsement and am currently working on my L4. I’m also honored to have served as belayer, Assistant Head Belayer, or Head Belayer at all levels of competition. When I’m not belaying competitions, I’m active with my local paraclimbing community and am working on developing standards for paraclimbers to belay in competition.
I’ve also been known to judge competitions and have achieved my L1 TR/Lead and L2 Boulder Certification.
Belay Résumé
To see all the competitions I’ve belayed, take a look at my belay résumé.